The Emperor's New Clothes

The following is a fact-based topic-by-topic assessment of the mainstream Covid perspective.

In the beginning, there was a lot of fear of this unknown and “novel” coronavirus. Even the name brought confusion^[1]. (For the purposes of this document, we will be referring to the virus in all of its forms and precursors as Covid-19.)

The World Health Organization (WHO) along with other organizations predicted millions of deaths worldwide. China reported healthy people dropping dead in the streets.^[2] We were told that our only option to save lives was to “flatten the curve,” so that the medical system would not be overwhelmed.

This was the official position taken by global and governmental bodies worldwide, and it changed reality as we knew it. The mission, we were told, was to be accomplished through a series of dramatic and serious interventions in the functioning of society.. Businesses, schools and houses of worship were closed. Freedom of assembly, practice of religion, commerce and free movement were curtailed or limited altogether. Anyone who tested positive or had been in contact with someone who tested positive was ordered into isolation for a minimum of two weeks. People were required to keep physical distance from each other and size of gatherings were severely limited. Face masks were mandated. Invasive government contact-tracing methods were employed to track the virus spread. Many experts who spoke out against the regulations were silenced from social media and some were arrested^[3].

For an outbreak that has an average survival rate of over 99+%^[4], citizens worldwide are starting to ask if these measures are justified, or has large parts of our leadership following some sort of group-think like the people in the story “The Emperor’s New clothes”. Is this a fight of humanity against a virus, or of the system against the people? The following document is here to walk through some of the key issues. The names of the authors and contributors are intentionally not included, as we hope this will put the focus on the sources where it belongs. The claims made here are cited and we encourage everyone to follow the citations and evaluate them based on the merit of the claim. This document is merely a collection of those claims. While we include sources from across the world, the primary focus is our own country of Israel.

^[1]https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it

^[2] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda

^[3] “Dr Heiko Schoning, was arrested in London’s Hyde Park after appearing at a protest in Trafalgar Square earlier in the day”

 https://principia-scientific.com/what-does-the-london-arrest-of-dr-heiko-schoning-mean/

^[4] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/stanford-study-suggests-coronavirus-might-not-be-as-deadly-as-flu

The virus, 7 months after the March 2020 predictions were made, turned out to be far less deadly than predicted, Canada predicted 350,000[1] dead vs 9,600 actual, UK predicted 250,000 dead vs 42,000[2] actual, USA predicted 2.2 million[3] dead vs 220,000 actual, Israel predicted 35,000 [4] dead vs 1800. These dire predictions assumed that no lockdowns would take place. Lockdown advocates claim that the lockdowns are what saved all those lives (the difference between the actual and the predicted). This might be a reasonable claim if we didn’t have a control-group (a country that did not lockdown). But, of course, we do: Sweden.

In Sweden, the only western country not to lockdown in those initial 7 months, it was predicted that they would suffer 96,000 [5] deaths by June, when in fact they experienced only 5,900. Here, in the only control group to test the validity of the model, we see it overestimated the deaths by 15 times. In June, the UK Imperial College admitted that Sweden achieved similar results to the UK without imposing a lockdown[6].

 

[1]“worst-case scenario with 350,000 deaths”

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/full-text-canada-projections-covid-19-coronavirus-deaths-cases

[2]“ 250,000 deaths in Britain without lockdown”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/01/sweden-has-destroyed-the-case-for-lockdown/

[3]“Think of the number — potentially 2.2 million people if we did nothing”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/trump-coronavirus-millions-saved-160814

[4]“…forecast of 30,000-40,000 deaths should Israel not do anything”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-predicts-up-to-40-000-coronavirus-patients-may-die-can-we-avoid-this-1.8711447

[5]“Predicted 96,000 deaths by the end of June”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/01/sweden-has-destroyed-the-case-for-lockdown/

https://swprs.org/studies-on-covid-19-lethality/#foobox-1/7/sweden-projection-reality-june-28.png

[6]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/02/prof-lockdown-neil-ferguson-admits-sweden-used-science-uk-has/

In February, 2020 the predictions of the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), or “death rate” from Covid-19 were estimated to be 3.4%[1]. We were told that Covid-19 was much more deadly than the seasonal flu and we must “flatten the curve” in order to avoid overwhelming our hospitals[2]. Much of the world was placed on “lockdown” for an indefinite period[3]. 7 months later, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), some 10% of the world had been infected with 1.07 million of them dying – making the actual IFR 0.14%[4] . Which is significantly lower than estimated, the WHO acknowledges in its own report that “infection fatality rates tended to be much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic”[5]. Other studies support this finding with IFRs of between .32% – .01%. By comparison the flu has an IFR of .1% – .2%[6]. The former Director of Israel’s Health Ministry said, “You’re not more at risk of dying of coronavirus than the flu.”[7]

[1] “WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally” 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3point4percent-globally-higher-than-previously-thought.htm

[2]“A flatter curve, on the other hand, assumes the same number of people ultimately get infected, but over a longer period of time”

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-flatten-the-curve.html

[3]“There’s no complete science behind any of it really — but it’s worthwhile to explore different ways of trying to control things,” said infectious disease specialist”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/justin-trudeau-coronavirus-response-canada-measures

[4]“That’s an infection fatality rate of roughly or 0.14%”

https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/08/who-accidentally-confirms-covid-is-no-more-dangerous-than-flu

[5]“The inferred infection fatality rates tended to be much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic”

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

[6]“coronavirus might not be as deadly as flu”

ttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/stanford-study-suggests-coronavirus-might-not-be-as-deadly-as-flu

[7]‘You’re not more at risk of dying of coronavirus than the flu”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280874

The WHO created a very broad definition of what is considered to be a “Covid-19 death”, and this definition was adopted worldwide. According to their definition[1] a Covid-19 death is one where a person had a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19 at any time, prior to death. This means that what is reported as a Covid-19 death may have another cause, like cancer or a heart condition. Nevertheless, it is recorded as a Covid-19 death, if the hospital suspects Covid-19, or if the patient tested positive, even when no Covid-19 symptoms are present. By mid-April nearly 37% of Covid deaths in New York City were “presumptive” deaths[2]

According to a UK study over the summer of 2020, nearly a third of all deaths recorded as Covid-19 did not have Covid-19 as an “underlying cause of death”.[3] In addition, once Covid-19 was recorded as a reason for death on the death certificate, it could not be rescinded, even if it was in error[4].Meanwhile, in the USA, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that only about 6% of Covid-19 deaths had no comorbidity[5]. This means that 94% of Covid-19 deaths had additional contributing causes of death listed on the death certificate[6]

[1]https://www.who.int/classifications/icd/Guidelines_Cause_of_Death_COVID-19.pdf

[2]“more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-deaths.html

[3]this proportion has risen substantially to nearly a third over the last eight weeks”

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/death-certificate-data-covid-19-as-the-underlying-cause-of-death/

[4]https://www.who.int/classifications/icd/Guidelines_Cause_of_Death_COVID-19.pdf bottom of page 8

[5]“CDC report shows 94% of COVID-19 deaths in U.S. had contributing conditions”

https://abc-7.com/news/2020/08/31/cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths-in-u-s-had-contributing-conditions/

[6]https://abc-7.com/news/2020/08/31/cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths-in-u-s-had-contributing-conditions/

In September, the Israeli government was considering (and later implemented) a second “full” lockdown over the upcoming Jewish High Holidays. (The first such lockdown was arranged over the Jewish holiday of Passover.) A key factor in the decision to re-lockdown the country was the governmental claim that Israeli hospitals were totally overwhelmed and  well over 100% capacity for Covid-19 patients[1] [2]. The situation was allegedly so bad that the Ministry of Health ordered the hospitals to stop all non-urgent treatments and surgeries[3]. Shockingly, the hospitals, themselves, counter-claimed that they were far from being “at capacity”[4].  This prompted an undercover investigative report from Israeli Channel 12, which proved that the Covid-19 wards were actually well under capacity[5]. In response, the Israeli government quickly expunged all Covid-19 hospital data from their website[6]. Despite this, the second “full” lockdown in Israel proceeded anyway. Weeks later it was further revealed that about a third of hospitalized Covid “patients” in fact recovered from Covid and were in the hospital for unrelated issues.[7]

 

[1]https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-lockdown-will-last-at-least-a-month-possibly-much-longer/

[2]“Health Ministry claims COVID wards countrywide overcrowded”

  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287670

[3]“The Health Ministry has ordered hospitals to discontinue all elective (non-urgent) treatments and surgeries, claiming the system is flooded with coronavirus patients”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287670

[4]“Ministry’s statistics had massively inflated the number of patients at a number of hospitals”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287710

[5]“In some wards, occupancy rates are only 50%, contrary to ministry report”

https://www.mako.co.il/news-lifestyle/2020_q3/Article-b99f8baa3b1b471027.htm?sCh=31750a2610f26110&pId=173113802

[6]“Israel’s Health Ministry has scrubbed its coronavirus information page of all data regarding the status of coronavirus hospital wards across the country”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287710

[7]“[a given patient] is defined and included in the number of hospitalized COVID patients, even though the coronavirus is not related to the reason for hospitalization”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291736

For decades, dozens of scientific papers have suggested that masks are ineffective at preventing disease transmission[1]. Both the WHO and Dr. Fauci (Spokesman for the Coronavirus task force in the USA) corroborated that claim as recently as March, 2020[2]. In that same month, there was a sudden flip. We were told that masks would now protect us from Covid-19, despite claims to the contrary from the mask manufacturers[3]. By September, 2020, the head of the CDC claimed in testimony before a US Senate subcommittee, that masks were more effective at preventing Covid-19 than vaccines.[4]

Despite the now “conventional wisdom” that masks prevent the spread of viruses, there are in fact numerous studies that show they don’t [5]. Interestingly, research also shows that when surgeons wear masks during surgery, it has no effect on whether the patient develops a subsequent infection[6]. CDC data reveals that those who wear masks get infected with Covid-19 at the same rate as those who don’t [7] Indeed, 85% of those infected with Covid-19 wore masks some or all of the time before their infection[8]. The countless jurisdictions, including Israel, that mandated masks, actually saw an increase of infections during the mandate.[9]

Even if masks were effective, one must also consider the negative effects of continuous mask wearing, such as; decrease in the levels of oxygen intake[10] [11] [12] [13], headaches[14],  reduced immunity[15], increased germ load[16] and skin reactions[17]. Recently, the first and only randomized, controlled study of mass masking during Covid, concluded that wearing a mask had no significant effect on whether they contracted the virus.[18]

 

[1]35 studies showing mask ineffectiveness

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/anti-therapeutic-action/face-masks-lack-safety-and-ineffectiveness-research

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising-against-masks-early-in-pandemic-2020-7

[4]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/cdc-director-says-face-masks-may-provide-more-protection-than-coronavirus-vaccine-.html

[5]“This article will show that masks not only fail to protect, but also cause damage”

https://telegra.ph/The-mask-scam-unmasked-10-01 & https://www.greenmedinfo.com/anti-therapeutic-action/face-masks-lack-safety-and-ineffectiveness-research

“Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

[6]“On the contrary, a 50% decrease has been reported after omitting face masks”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01658736

[7]“masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them”

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/

[8]“CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks”

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/

https://hebrewnews.com/article/36365

[9]https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

https://youtu.be/v7f7fb3RsSs

[10]N95 masks are estimated to reduce oxygen intake by anywhere from 5 percent to 20 percent. That’s significant, even for a healthy person”

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/04/14/stanford-researchers-reengineer-covid-19-face-masks/

[11]“SpO2 decrease after the first hour.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18500410/

[12]“Ventilation, cardiopulmonary exercise capacity and comfort are reduced by surgical masks”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y

[13]“ Wearing a surgical mask modifies significantly and clinically dyspnea”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395560/

[14] “81% of them developed headaches when wearing a face mask”

https://telegra.ph/The-mask-scam-unmasked-10-01 Source 18  https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/head.13811

[15]“This in turn reduces the immune response, negatively affects the function of the epithelial cells”

   “Wearing a face mask can increase your risk of infection”

https://telegra.ph/The-mask-scam-unmasked-10-01 Source 19 & 20

[16]“even masks that were never worn showed a considerable germ spectrum, since they were not sterilely packaged”

https://telegra.ph/The-mask-scam-unmasked-10-01 Source 23 & 24

[17]“The incidence of adverse skin reactions to the N95 mask was 95.1%”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32541493/

[18]“mask-wearing ‘not statistically significant’”

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291576

During the lockdowns, a broad spectrum of medical professionals have observed that people are not receiving proper medical treatment, due to fear of contracting Covid-19. They believe that this has led to an increase of deaths from heart attack[1], cancer, diabetes and more.[2] The UK experienced a dramatic increase of dementia deaths during the lockdown.[3] Fully two-thirds of excess deaths in nursing homes were not Covid-19 related[4], while at the same time about 40% of hospital beds remained unoccupied[5].

There has been a significant increase of people dying at home from non-covid causes,[6] including depression and other mental health issues.[7] In Australia, from March to August, six times as many people died from suicide than from covid[8], in Japan it stands at eight times[9]. 28% of parents in quarantine with their children are later diagnosed with a trauma-related health disorder[10]. In Israel, domestic violence reports increased by 95%[11], there was a 40% increase in anxiety and depression during the lockdown[12] by October, after a steady increase, fully 20% of the Israeli public have been diagnosed with high or very high levels of depression[13] and 30% with high or extremely high anxiety[14] .  The elderly, who are at the most risk of Covid-19 complications, have led protests to the “lockdowns,” stating that they’d rather die from Covid-19 than from loneliness.[15]

[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/27/heart-attacks-detected-treated-fell-40-per-cent-covid-pandemic/

[2]16,000 people died because they didn’t get medical care between March 23 and May 1”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8605885/Lockdown-killed-two-people-three-died-coronavirus.html

[3]“Extra 10,000 dementia deaths in England and Wales in April”

Https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/covid-19-causing-10000-dementia-deaths-beyond-infections-research-says?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true

[4]“Staggering number” of extra deaths in community is not explained by covid-19”

 https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1931

[5]“NHS hospitals have four times more empty beds than normal”

https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/nhs-hospitals-have-four-times-more-empty-beds-than-normal/7027392.article

[6]“Between March and September 2020, there were 24,387 more deaths in England than expected in private home”

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54598728

[7]“The psychological impact of quarantine”

 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30460-8/fulltext

[8]There’s been over 1,200 suicides since March compared to just over 200 deaths with the virus.

https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/gus-worland-talks-mental-health-during-covid-and-the-alarming-rate-of-suicide-in-australia-c-1221236

[9]“self-inflicted deaths were up 600 year on year, with female suicides, about a third of the total, surging over 80%”

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-suicide-coronavirus-more-japanese-suicides-in-october-than-total-covid-deaths/

[10]“This is arguably the largest psychological experiment ever conducted”

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/this-is-the-psychological-side-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-that-were-ignoring/

[11]“Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) saw a 95% increase in reporting”

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/domestic-abuse-reports-to-whatsapp-hotline-spike-by-95-percent-amid-covid-19-650109

[12]“Haifa University reports a 300% increase in requests for psychological treatment”

https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/S1eZC9OHw

[13]“15% increase in referrals to psychiatric clinics since pandemic’s start”

 https://www.jpost.com/health-science/coronavirus-research-one-in-five-israelis-suffer-from-depression-650808

[14]“Just 5% of the 804-strong sample think health represents the biggest threat”

 http://www.timesofisrael.com/pandemic-plunging-israelis-to-depression-depleting-bounce-back-ability/

[15]“Rather die from COVID than loneliness”

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/rather-die-from-covid-than-loneliness-colorado-nursing-home-residents-protest-restrictions.html

The economy worldwide has taken a substantial hit. The United Nations (UN) estimates that 225 million worldwide will starve, as a result of Covid-19[1]. In the USA, 7 million people fell into poverty[2] with children comprising the highest numbers[3]. Roughly a third of small businesses in NY & NJ that closes, have yet to reopen[4]. In Israel, personal bankruptcies increased by 75% in June[5]. Unemployment reached 25% in March and remains around 15% in November (compared to 3.4% before the lockdowns).[6] Prior to the lockdowns, Israel’s economy was growing at 3% but has since declined, at a rate of 6.3%. The Treasury expects the total cost to the israeli economy to be a staggering 220 billion shekels (67 billion USD)[7]. This is significantly more than twice the entire annual Israeli healthcare expenditure combined[8]. Families living below the poverty line have increased by 50% since the start of the lockdowns[9]. Even the UN now admits that lockdowns just make the poor… poorer[10]. The WHO has now also stated that lockdowns should be avoided.[11]

[1]“a series of human tragedies more brutal and destructive than any of the direct health impacts of the virus”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/coronavirus-set-trigger-brutal-tragedies-fragile-countries-un/

[2]“8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/us/politics/federal-aid-poverty-levels.html

[3]“2.5 million children falling below the poverty line since May”

  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/us/politics/federal-aid-poverty-levels.html

[4]“27.8 percent of small businesses in New York have not reopened following the mass shutdowns”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/30/report-over-a-quarter-of-small-businesses-in-new-york-and-new-jersey-closed-this-year/

[5]“Bankruptcy wave: 75% increase in applications filed in June”

https://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3840291,00.html

[6]“joblessness fell to 14.6%”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-recovering-but-slowly-israel-s-unemployment-rate-fell-to-under-15-in-november-1.9355153

“ jobless rate skyrockets to almost 25 percent from just 3.4 percent a month earlier”
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/more-than-a-million-israelis-are-unemployed-due-to-covid-19-lockdown/

[7]“The price tag for corona 220 billion”

 https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001342193

  https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001342193

[8]“National healthcare expenditure grew by 4.3% in 2018, reaching NIS 101.2 billion ($28.54b.)”

 https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-healthcare-expenditure-rises-remains-below-oecd-average-598982

[9]“9.3% of the population – were pushed into poverty”

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1607515164-covid-19-lockdowns-push-50-spike-in-number-of-israelis-living-in-poverty

[10]“Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,”

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus-who-backflips-on-virus-stance-by-condemning-lockdowns/news-story/f2188f2aebff1b7b291b297731c3da74

[11]“full-scale lockdowns should be a “very, very last resort.”

 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/15/lockdowns-should-be-last-resort-whos-europe-chief-says.html

Under the auspices of Covid-19, the government has greatly expanded their power over its citizenry. Emergency order after emergency order has severely encroached on personal liberties, in a way that was unthinkable before. The USA Attorney General agrees, saying that lockdowns and associated policies were one of the “greatest intrusions on civil liberties in American history”[1]

In Israel (and elsewhere), freedom of religion was severely restricted by the closure of places of worship and the limiting of the number of worshipers that can gather either indoors or outdoors. In November the U.S. Supreme Court struck down this restriction concluding that it violated the the constitution[2]

Government restrictions on free speech and criticism of the government have been imposed in at least 72 countries”[3] Freedom of assembly was restricted by limiting the kinds and size of gatherings, including those in one’s own home.

In Israel (and worldwide) hundreds of thousands of people have been and continue to be detained and held without due process, and without appeal simply because they may have been in close contact with someone who may have been Covid-19 positive. To accomplish this, Israel utilized its security services to monitor the movement of citizens without the need of a court order[4]. Later, the government acknowledged that thousands were falsely sent to isolation because of this system[5] [6]. A government audit found that only 3-7% of those sent to isolation by the system eventually tested positive for Covid-19.[7]

Governments continued to mandate the wearing of intrusive medical devices (masks) based on little research, even after they proved ineffective at preventing further waves of infection[8]. Governments are restricting travel unless the traveler submits to an invasive PCR test, [9] even though the tests are unreliable[10] and the supreme court of Portugal ruled that the test is not sufficiently reliable and resulting quarantines are unlawful.[11]

The Israeli government has sealed its borders to non-citizens since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. At times, access to the justicial system was suspended with the closing of the courts[12]. Israel even included a ban on political demonstrations[13] the government issued over 306,755 fines (as of October) to people who didn’t comply with these regulations[14] In other countries, courts have ruled against the emergency measures due to constitutional or civil liberty violations[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20].

As if to add insult to injury, the Israeli government has refused to release the basis and details of their decision making, with regards to Covid-19, to the pubic and have sealed these records for 30 years, claiming state secrets[21].

[1]“greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history” other than slavery”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/09/17/barr-labels-stay-at-home-orders-the-greatest-intrusion-on-civil-liberties-since-slavery/#3251afa76c8f

[2]“strikes at the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty”

 https://agudah.org/high-court-victory-for-religious-liberty/

https://hebrewnews.com/article/37088

[3]“Since the coronavirus outbreak began, the condition of democracy and human rights has grown worse in 80 countries”

https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/democracy-under-lockdown

[4]“Government okays mass surveillance of Israelis’ phones”

“https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-okays-mass-surveillance-of-israelis-phones-to-curb-coronavirus/

[5]“Over 12,000 mistakenly quarantined by phone tracking, Health Ministry admits

“ https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-12000-mistakenly-quarantined-by-phone-tracking-health-ministry-admits/

[6]“they have no means of appealing the order”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-30-000-israelis-ordered-to-quarantine-as-digital-tracking-of-virus-patients-resumes-1.8970199

[7]“Shin Bet sent between three to eight times as many people into quarantine unnecessarily when compared to epidemiological investigations”

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/comptroller-end-shin-bet-surveillance-of-corona-infected-citizens-646990

[8]Charts showing infections and mask mandates

 https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

https://youtu.be/v7f7fb3RsSs

[9]“entry to those areas will be allowed for those who underwent a coronavirus test during the preceding 72 hours” https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-cases-rise-eilat-and-dead-sea-open-to-israeli-tourists-strip-malls-reopen/

[10]“PCR test does not necessarily mean the virus is present, infectious, or viable”

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/292466

[11]“Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests “Unreliable” & Quarantines “Unlawful””

 https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/20/portuguese-court-rules-pcr-tests-unreliable-quarantines-unlawful/

[12]“emergency measures … affecting the workings of Israel’s courts”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-netanyahu-trial-postponed-by-two-months-1.8675477

[13]“Virus czar says vote to shut down was all about protests, ‘made me sick’”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-virus-czar-said-vote-for-full-closure-all-about-protests-made-me-sick/

[14]“306,755 COVID-19 non-compliance fines”

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/518714

[15]https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/michigan-supreme-court-strikes-down-whitmers-virus-orders-gov-fires-back

[16]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-wisconsin-idUSKBN22Q04H

[17]https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-spanish-court-overturns-madrid-lockdown-order/a-55195457

[18]https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/09/14/pennsylvania-coronavirus-restrictions-struck-down-tom-wolf-stay-at-home-order-federal-court/#3d3a2f294bdf

[19]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-meat-guete-idUSKBN2472BW

[20]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8847125/Berlin-court-overturns-order-shut-Berlins-bars-restaurants-11pm.html

[21]“It sent the protocols documenting how it happened to the state archives for 30 years”

 https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001331519

For many, the information being shared in this document is new. This is, in part, because the media and more alarmingly, social-media has enacted an open policy of censorship. For example, Facebook and YouTube have an explicit policy that prohibits posting information that contradicts the World Health Organisation.[1] [2] [3] [4] Between April and June of 2020, Facebook has removed over 7 million posts that contravene this policy.[5] Examples of credible posts that were deliberately removed include, a pair of medical doctors from California who were reporting being coerced into falsifying death certificates[6] and a video produced by a group of doctors talking about the ineffectiveness of masks and the suppression of effective treatments for covid patients[7]. Facebook also created a Fact Checking program, that alerts users if they have visited “debunked content”[8] Interestingly, two noted Oxford academics were labeled as passing on “false information” even though one is director of the university’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine![9].  Over at Amazon.com, books which are critical of government response to Covid-19 were removed (some were later reinstated, under pressure).[10] [11] Perhaps even more disturbing is that governments, have joined the chorus and are also now encouraging more censorship[12] [13] [14]

[1]“Anything that goes against WHO recommendations would be a violation of our policy”

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-will-ban-anything-against-who-guidance-2020-4

[2]“Facebook is hiding these posts. At the time of viral pandemic this shouldn’t be happening.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/03/17/facebook-deleting-coronavirus-posts-leading-to-charges-of-censorship/?sh=12f4f6f55962

[3]“Facebook is increasingly dictating what its users should see and think”

https://telecoms.com/503783/facebook-doubles-down-on-covid-19-censorship/

[4]“[facebook] will remove “false claims and conspiracy theories that have been flagged by leading global health organizations.”

 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-facebook-offers-free-ads-to-who-will-remove-flase-claims.html

[5]“Facebook says it has taken down 7 million posts for spreading coronavirus misinformation”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/facebook-covid-misinformation-takedowns/

[6]“YouTube for banning Californian doctors’ video that claimed physicians are being pressurized into putting Coronavirus on death certificates”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8269475/YouTube-accused-censorship-removing-videos-criticize-shutdowns.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPrbGU0Wyh4&ab_channel=FoxNews

[7]“was removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube after going viral online Monday”

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/tech/facebook-youtube-coronavirus/index.html

[8]“Facebook will start telling people when they’ve interacted with posts about bogus cures”

 https://www.npr.org/2020/04/16/835579533/did-you-fall-for-a-coronavirus-hoax-facebook-will-let-you-know

[9]“Two top Oxford academics accuse Facebook of censorship for branding their article”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8973631/Two-Oxford-academics-accuse-Facebook-censorship-article-warning.html

[10]“Amazon yanks Covid-19 skeptic’s book for ominously vague ’content violations’”

https://www.rt.com/usa/503778-perloff-amazon-censorship-coronavirus/

[11]“Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson found that a book he’d written was temporarily banned from Amazon”

https://mynorthwest.com/1942286/alex-berenson-amazon-covid/

[12]“UK MP Khalid Mahmood calls for censorship of “misinformation” about coronavirus and politicians”

https://reclaimthenet.org/khalid-mahmood-censorship/

[13]“criminal penalties for social media firms that do not remove false scare stories about vaccines”

 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54947661

[14]“[AG threatened] criminal prosecution if it did not take down a video of alleged voting fraud”

https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/12/big-league-censorship-michigan-attorney-general-threatens-criminal-prosecution-over-posting-of-video-alleging-voter-fraud/

https://swprs.org/facts-about-covid-19/

https://gbdeclaration.org/

https://www.modelcommonsense.com/

https://lockdownsceptics.org/home/

http://thepriceofpanic.com/

https://www.aier.org/article/cost-of-us-lockdowns-a-preliminary-report/

https://goachronicle.com/belgium-health-experts-demand-investigations-into-the-role-of-who-in-an-open-letter/